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Indigenous rights and self-governance
Recommendation 130:
We call upon all governments and Inuit organizations to work collaboratively to ensure that population numbers for Inuit outside of the Inuit homeland are captured in a disaggregated manner, and that their rights as Inuit are upheld. These numbers are urgently needed to identify the growing, social, economic, political, and cultural needs of urban Inuit.
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Recommendation 86:
We call upon all governments and Indigenous organizations to develop and apply a definition of “best interests of the child” based on distinct Indigenous perspectives, world views, needs, and priorities, including the perspective of Indigenous children and youth. The primary focus and objective of all child and family services agencies must be upholding and protecting the rights of the child through ensuring the health and well-being of children, their families, and communities, and family unification and reunification.
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Recommendation 214:
We call upon all governments and educators to fund and support specific Knowledge Keeper gatherings on the topic of reclaiming and re-establishing space and community for 2SLGBTQQIA people.
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Recommendation 84:
We call upon all federal, provincial, and territorial governments to recognize Indigenous self-determination and inherent jurisdiction over child welfare. Indigenous governments and leaders have a positive obligation to assert jurisdiction in this area. We further assert that it is the responsibility of Indigenous governments to take a role in intervening, advocating, and supporting their members impacted by the child welfare system, even when not exercising jurisdiction to provide services through Indigenous agencies.
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Recommendation 71:
We call upon all chief coroners and provincial vital statistics agencies that have not provided to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada their records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the care of residential school authorities to make these documents available to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
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Recommendation 2:
We call on the Province of British Columbia to link the implementation and monitoring of the Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act with the First Nations PHWA as a way to monitor the impacts of increased self-determination on First Nations roots of wellness and health outcomes.
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Recommendation 1:
We call on the Government of Canada, in meaningful partnership with First Nations, to pass private members Bill C-262, or an equivalent bill, to enact legislation that will require the federal government to align its existing and new legislation with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Recommendation 4:
We call on system partners who possess data that relates to First Nations health and wellness in the broadest sense to uphold First Nations data governance principles to make the data accessible to First Nations and their organizations. Goals of this work include supporting self-determination, Nation-rebuilding, and further development of institutions. FNHA is uniquely positioned to support the data governance of Nations, while providing a strong voice on First Nations population health at the provincial level through a stewardship and Watchmon role.
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Recommendation 3:
We call on BC municipal governments to review practices, policies, and bylaws and take actions in meaningful partnership with local First Nations, on whose territory they now reside, to promote local First Nations self-determination. Municipalities and local BC First Nations should collaboratively identify opportunities to nourish local BC First Nations’ roots of wellness and develop mechanisms to regularly demonstrate reciprocal accountability on progress towards increased shared decision-making and First Nations self-determination.
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Recommendation 113:
We applaud the work of Dr. Cindy Blackstock and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and call on the federal government to comply with the legally-binding orders of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to:
- Immediately and fully apply Jordan’s principle to all First Nations children living on and off reserve.
- Apply Jordan’s principle based on the need of the child and not limited to the normative standard of care.
- Ensure that administrative delays do not delay service provision and respond to most cases within 48 hours.
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